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Abhanga 3660

Tukārām's don't-know-bhakti-shrunk-back; became-ājñā-pāḷaka canonical

The verse

न कळे जी भक्ती काय करूं सेवा । संकोचोनि देवा राहिलोंसे ॥१॥ जोडोनियां कर राहिलों निवांत । पायांपाशीं चित्त ठेवूनियां ॥ध्रु.॥ दिशाभुली करीं स्थळीं प्रदक्षणा । भ्रमें नारायणा कष्टविलें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे जालों आज्ञेचा पाळक । जीवनासी एक ठाव केला ॥३॥

Literal translation

Don't-know-bhakti-or-sēvā — shrunk-back. Folding-kara-stayed-nivānta — chitta-near-pāya. Direction-confused-pradakṣaṇā-at-place — troubled-Nārāyaṇa. Tukā: ājñā-pāḷaka — made-one-ṭhāva-for-jīvana.

What it means

A 3-verse don't-know-how-to-do-bhakti text. I don't know bhakti-or-sēvā; I've shrunk back and stayed; folded my hands silently with chitta near your feet; in directional-confusion I keep circling this place; I've become the keeper-of-your-order; one place for my life.

For someone today

Tukārām: I've-become-ājñā-pāḷaka; one-place-for-my-life.

Where this applies

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